Standing before the Secret Room, Chen Ge listened intently. The woman's singing was very strange. It sounded like a style of music from Han Jiang that had nearly been lost.
Through the walls covered in Talisman Paper, just hearing the woman's voice was enough to make him picture green tiles and gray bricks, curtains of every color. It was as if he had returned to The Past. When he took a deep breath, his lungs filled with the mournful fragrance of face powder.
"Better than I expected. This Red-Clothed is quite special." Chen Ge perked up. "My Haunted House doesn't have any employees who can sing classical opera yet. If she's willing, I could give her a hand."
The woman's voice was mesmerizing. She sang in a local dialect, and Chen Ge could understand very little of it. He couldn't tell whether she was singing about the opera or about herself.
"Which room will you choose? The Secret Room covered in Talisman Paper is the most dangerous. Will you come here?" Chen Ge clenched his fists. Just then, he heard a door being pulled open. The bedroom outside the Secret Room had been opened!
At the same moment the door opened, the Long-haired Woman sitting alone in that bedroom let out a scream.
"Xu Yin!"
Chen Ge threw open the Secret Room door. He saw a thin woman in a blood-red opera costume standing in the bedroom doorway.
Her fingers pressed against the door. Hatred that could not be dispelled gleamed in her scarlet eyes. She leaned against the wall, and the skin exposed beneath her costume was covered in scars.
"Watch out!" Chen Ge shouted to the black-haired woman inside, grabbed her by the arm, and stood in front of her, shielding her with his back.
As he shielded